Amorion Walker to Ole Miss

Submitted by crg on January 17th, 2024 at 11:40 AM
https://twitter.com/hayesfawcett3/status/1747657355037192545?s=46&t=PxkdKFxYGDdYIH3-WSlAHw

 

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FauxMo

January 17th, 2024 at 12:26 PM ^

"She lost the will to live? Wait, what? How did she die again? What is this nonsense? Are you people witch doctors?? What's up with those robot nurses and that billion-dollar medical equipment working in the background? Are those just for show, or are they able to detect 'lost the will to live'?" 

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LSA91

January 17th, 2024 at 12:33 PM ^

That would have been hilarious:

"Well, did you try a 'will to live' transfusion?"

"Yes sir, we considered that, but we exhausted our on board supplies quickly, and no one on board has compatible will to live for a transfusion."

or

"They say Darth Plageous was even able to increase someone's will to live."

"Can I learn this technique?"

"Not from a jedi."

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MJ14

January 17th, 2024 at 12:56 PM ^

I thought Rod and Makari were both leaving. I was confused when Walker announced his transfer. It made a load more sense with both of them back. The backfield next year will feature Rod/Makari/Will/McBurrows/Sabb/Waller/Zeke plus Hill will get some run as well. That’s plenty for the secondary. Walker was behind at least 4 of them. 

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BKBlue94

January 17th, 2024 at 1:50 PM ^

It's not really giving the right picture to group all these guys together, since they play 3 different positions (safety, nickelback, corner). Only Johnson, Waller, and Hill are the same position as him and he's only definitively behind Johnson.

I think Ole Miss probably paid him a lot, which is just the way of the world today. Maybe they also told him he'd start, but he would have had a solid shot here too

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djmagic

January 17th, 2024 at 2:03 PM ^

walker would have been competing for the starting Corner spot opposite Will Johnson.  McBurrows was/is most likely to replace Sainristil at NB.   from my understanding, anyways.  I welcome correction if wrong here.

This seems like an NIL/Bag associated transfer, and not a playing time transfer. 

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MJ14

January 17th, 2024 at 5:10 PM ^

Highly unlikely they bring in a secondary guy with Paige and Rod back. The staff expected both to head to the NFL. Johnson will start with Waller opposite him most likely. Hill will back them both up. Rod and Makari will start at safety. McBurrows will be NB, but they plan to use Makari there as well to get Sabb and Zeke on the field. McBurrows could see time at cornerback. Quinten Johnson will also likely be back for a 6th year. The secondary has plenty of guys. I understand the safeties play a different role than the CB and NB but you’ll see safeties lining up at CB and NB next season. With the experience most of the older guys have you might as well consider them secondary guys and not strictly safeties at this point. Walker had a long road to starting time. Now 2025? Sure with Johnson, Paige, Moore and likely Sabb gone that’s when he could have seen significant time. 

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Mgoblue0205

January 18th, 2024 at 12:28 PM ^

Jessie Minter said before the season he felt Jyaire Hill would make an impact later in the year. That didn't happen because Wallace was playing well. The sample size is small, but watching Hill in the spring game he was a ballhawk and every time they threw his way he was right on the receiver. At 6'2 he needs to add wejght as I believe hes only listed at 170lbs. But IMO the secondary is going to be very good, especially with guys like Moore, Graham, Stewart etc pressuring the QB. This secondary will get alot of takeaways IMO. By the end of the year, Hill and Johnson could be the best Duo we've had in quite awhile. Getting Wallace was a great addition last year, but I think going to the portal again in this instance can make a guy like Hill or Waller transfer. Again this is just my opinion but I think Hill would be just fine, especially against the majority of Big10 offenses outside of the obvious few.

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Mgoblue0205

January 18th, 2024 at 12:37 PM ^

Walker looked absolutely terrible in the spring game. He obviously felt like guys like Waller, Hill, and Mcborrows would beat him out and honestly they should. You can have all the athleticism in the world, but when you're getting burnt by recievers that don't even see the field in the regular season its a sign he needs alot of work. Thats not to say he can't develop into a good corner, but just seems like he doesn't have a feel for it. Look at guys like Sainristril, or not to compare Walker to Woodson but...Just saying those guys made the transition from offense to defense ratber easily, or at least from the start they had a much better feel for it than Walker showed.

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Clarence Boddicker

January 17th, 2024 at 2:59 PM ^

I believe Nick Carraway referred to Gatsby wearing clothes that "...only a Negro could pull off."

Here's a Gatsby fun fact. Fitzgerald's intention was to make Gatsby bi-racial--which would make him (this is the 20s, remember) an African-American with a light complexion. Gatsby is passing as a white dude. Which is why Daisy can't marry him. The bi-racial lineage is why he has to die at the end--it's a trope of novels about passing. According to letters shared with his editor, Fitzgerald scrubbed the more overt indicators of this, but left some behind. In the novel, Gatsby's hair is referred to as closely cropped, rather than the long wavy hair Redford and DiCaprio feature in the films. Of course, closely cropped hair would disguise curls and thus his ethnicity. There's also the way he dresses, noted above. He is, like Daisy, from Kentucky--the South--where miscegenation was assumed by Northerners to be more prevalent because of the slave past.

There were many novels about "passing" in the 20s and 30s. Oxford's own, William Faulkner, wrote one. Passing was a bit of an obsession then because eugenics was taken as scientific fact up until the Holocaust. The school I teach at recently renamed the library because one of the two names on it belonged to a prominent Vermont eugenicist. 

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JonathanE

January 17th, 2024 at 3:25 PM ^

 He's also, like Daisy, from Kentucky--the South--where miscegenation was assumed by Northerners to be more prevalent.

In the novel, James Gatz later renamed Jay Gatsby was born to poor Lutheran farmers in North Dakota. He meets Daisy Fay after joining the military and doing his military training in Louisville, Kentucky. Daisy marries Tom Buchanan, a wealthy Chicago businessman after the war while Gatsby is studying at Trinity College, Oxford. 

 

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Clarence Boddicker

January 17th, 2024 at 11:00 PM ^

There are a lot of elements in that novel that don't make any sense unless Gatsby is passing. First off, the idea that Daisy can't leave Tom for Gatsby because Gatsby's wealth is new money. That's never really been a thing in America--here, all money is basically new. Then there's Tom, going on and on about the "Causcasian" race being overrun, a direct reference to an actual book as well as a fear of people steeped in eugenics. There pretty much zero reason for that conversation to take place other than in reference to Gatsby's true race.

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S.D. Jones

January 17th, 2024 at 2:41 PM ^

That author knows little about the Great Gatsby, among other things. "For modern readers, it's tempting to take his color selection as a sign of dandyism." Well, that's because that's how it's always been meant to be taken. Readers of all eras get that Tom isn't doubtful of Gatsby's past because pink is supposedly feminine, but because it's tacky and outre and clashes with his (fairly widespread) conception of a buttoned-up, tweedy Oxford man. Modern readers of a would react the same of a yellow zoot suit or black Adidas track suit in similar circumstances. 

 

Edit: Kudos, Phaedrus, for making the same point more succinctly and speedily than I!

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